{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-insanity-and-unfitness-to-plead-act-1991/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-insanity-and-unfitness-to-plead-act-1991/schedule-3/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/25",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-insanity-and-unfitness-to-plead-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Subsection (2) of that section shall cease to have effect.\n(3) For subsection (3) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsections—\n“(3) Where the Court of Appeal allow an appeal under section 15 of this Act against a finding that the appellant is under a disability—\n(a) the appellant may be tried accordingly for the offence with which he was charged; and\n(b) the Court may make such orders as appear to them necessary or expedient pending any such trial for his custody, release on bail or continued detention under the Mental Health Act 1983;\nand Schedule 3 to this Act has effect for applying provisions in Part III of that Act to persons in whose case an order is made by the Court under this subsection.\n(4) Where, otherwise than in a case falling within subsection (3) above, the Court of Appeal allow an appeal under section 15 of this Act against a finding that the appellant did the act or made the omission charged against him, the Court shall, in addition to quashing the finding, direct a verdict of acquittal to be recorded (but not a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 3(1) repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 35, s. 29(2), Sch. 3; S.I. 1995/3061, art. 3(d)(i)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 3 wholly in force at 1.1.1992 see s. 9(2) and S.I. 1991/2488, art. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/25/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:38:29.295872+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}